Matisse in Morocco
A Journey of Light and Color
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Product details:
- Publisher Pegasus Books
- Date of Publication 11 September 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781639369096
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 228x152x35 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 pages of color photographs 700
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Short description:
The remarkable and little-known story of Henri Matisse and his groundbreaking time in Morocco, a fertile period that transformed his art and cemented his legacy.
MoreLong description:
In winter of 1912, Henri Matisse—forty-two, nearing mid-career, and yet to find lasting critical acceptance, public admiration, or financial security since exploding to the forefront of the avant-garde in 1905 with his iconoclastic Fauve paintings—was struggling. Once the vanguard leader, the Parisian avant-garde now considered him passé. His important early collectors, including Gertrude and Leo Stein, had stopped buying his work and were fully championing Picasso, and he had exhibited little in the last few years. In the face of Cubism that was now dominating the art scene, Matisse needed to get away from Paris in order to advance his distinctive artistic vision.
Almost on a whim, he went to Tangier. Matisse had already been profoundly inspired by Islamic art, and was primed for his arrival in the Moroccan city where such art was integrated into everyday life. Despite the challenges of rain, insomnia, depression, and finding models, the sojourn was such a success he returned the following winter, which would lead to even greater artistic triumph.
Matisse in Morocco tells the story of the artist&&&39;s groundbreaking time in Tangier and how it altered Matisse’s development as a painter and indelibly marked his work for the next four decades. Through Koehler&&&39;s research and travel, we experience Matisse&&&39;s time in Tangier, the paintings and their subjects, his relationships with his wife Amélie and his two important collectiors, and then come to understand the impact Morocco—its light, colors, culture, and artistic traditions—had on his art. From Landscape Viewed From a Window, to Zorah on the Terrace, from Kasbah Gate to the dream-like tableau Moroccan Café, these works from Morocco are now recognized as some of the most significant and dazzling of Matisse’s illustrious career.
"In Matisse in Morocco, Jeff Koehler argues that Tangier provided a singular creative context for the painter to grow and experiment, leading to artistic advances that would shape the rest of his career. Koehler successfully establishes Matisse’s long-standing reverence for Islamic art and decoration, which were strong influences in his work. Koehler weaves in fascinating stories about Matisse’s fellow artists, previous international journeys, and important but controversial collectors."
